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Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV'.

Former CIA director James Woolsey said Wednesday that the United States is engaged in World War IV, and that it could continue for years.

In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war
and said "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did
for us. Hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War."

Woolsey has been named in news reports as possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction
of a post-war Iraq.

He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq
and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda.

Woolsey told the audience of about 300, most of whom are students at the University of California at
Los Angeles, that all three enemies have waged war against the United States for several years but the
United States has just "finally noticed."

"As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey said, "over the years and, I think, over the decades
to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous." [be afraid, be veeerrry afraid! -- lki]

It will be America's backing of democratic movements throughout the Middle East that will bring about
this sense of unease, he said. [oh. I thought it was the bunkerbusters and cluster bombs.]

"Our response should be, 'good!'" Woolsey said singling out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and
the leaders of Saudi Arabia, he said, "We want you nervous. We want you to realize now, for the fourth
time in a hundred years, this country and its allies are on the march and that we are on the side of those
whom you -- the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side of your own people."

[hey, clint eastwood is not working much these days; maybe he could be our new High Commissioner for
Mesopotamia. "Make my day, Ahmed!" Wow, sends patriotic chills of pride up my all-American spine!]

Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton,was taking part in a "teach-in" at
UCLA, a series of such forums at universities across the nation.

The group was founded by former Education Secretary William Bennett, who took part in Wednesday's
event along with Paul Bremer, a U.S. ambassador during the Reagan administration and the former
chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism.

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